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Tuesday, December 3, 2013
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks: remembering the Ozark Folk Fair from forty years ago. The headliners included some of the top names in blues, rock, folk and bluegrass, but the event is all but forgotten now. Plus northwest Arkansas ranchers rally to help out farmers in South Dakota who lost cattle because of bad weather and local non-profits embrace Giving Tuesday.
Becca shares a variety of events happening on this busy Thursday.
"Under the Vault" by J. Peter Robinson
PJ talks about Double Indemnity, a classic example of film noir and one of the movies whose soundtrack will be heard on this week's Film Score Friday.
Boris Silva and his band stop by the Firmin-Garner Performance Studio to talk about their Jan. 29 performance at Teatro Scarpino. To see more the band's performance, click here. For more information visit www.borissilva.com
This morning two departments on the UA campus have a bit more financial support to create new programs that take new advantage of new technology. To hear more from Gerald Jordan about the challenges in teaching journalism students in an era of Twitter, blogs and more, click here.
This annual project encourages participants to read the same book in order to foster intellectual conversations throughout the region.